The creator of exhibit 10, photographer Henryk Tomasz Kaiser, presents a personal interpretation of the Ten Commandments; a guide that in an increasingly secularized society is a signpost for some, allowing them to find the right direction, and for others a series of prohibitions and restrictions. In his surprising vision of the biblical code, treating its message as an integral part of our culture, the author takes into account the progress of civilization, the current conditions...
opening: 2.12.2022, at 18.00 | author meeting: 3.12.2022, 1.00 pmThe starting point for the exhibition "Technology abhors ambition" is an interview conducted by Piotr Zugaj with Lucjan Demidowski in 2020, which will also become part of the publication accompanying the exhibition. The works of the two artists presented at the exhibition review each other, at times the question of their...
I knock on the door of the stone. - It's me, let me in. (...) - I don't have a door - says the stone - W. Szymborska,...
"Boxing is not chess - here you have to think". - this golden thought of Jerzy Kulej, Olympic boxing champion from many years ago, went down in history not only of funny sayings of athletes. It was so surprising and "improbable" that it prompted ... thinking, which, however, does not have to be boxing.Michal Lewandowski is a chess player, but also a photographer with a love of nature, who, with the help of...
The photographic image is not something invented, but something found ...
Pawel Zak is one of those photographers who, with incredible lightness, can use what the old masters used to call "the light of the image." The repeatedly shown and awarded series of his photos entitled "Stories" is an eloquent example of great visual culture in an artist whose works completely belong to the latest currents in contemporary photography. "Stories" is, in my opinion, a multi-layered ...
Julia Stachura: What is your first memory related to photography?Kamila Kobierzynska: I could echo Marcel Proust - we deal with what we lack. When I was a child I liked to look through photographs by pulling them out of drawers and boxes from time to time, but no one ever told me about them - I just looked at the pictures. I remember that one ...
On Friday, August 12, 2022, Natalia Lach-Lachowicz, one of the most recognizable figures in Polish photography, died at the age of 85. "Kwartalnik Fotografia" wrote about the Wroclaw-based artist many times between 2000 and 2012, and to check it out and get to all the articles it is best to look at the Great Personal Index, which is part of Krzysztof Szymoniak's book, Without Aperture - 13 years....
Photography has always been a tool that allowed man to explore. Over time, as optical devices, including cameras, became more and more advanced, and their possibilities for discovery grew, not only for scientists and researchers, but also for artists who manifested the natural human qualities of curiosity and observation. This made it possible to expand horizons not only in the field of...
Magdalena Zolędź: How would you define your theoretical background? How does it influence your work?Matthew Sadowski: It depends on current fascinations. I would locate it in certain sections of fiction and popular science publications, rather than in art theory. The influence of these interests (on my work) is indirect. I assume that a work of art can have characteristics that are different and peculiar....
